In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.

We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.